A few days after Harriet Harman, the UK's Minister for Women, Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, received a letter from the UK's statistics watchdog about peddling untruths about the gender pay gap, the Government's own Equalities and Human Rights Commission proves her wrong about the recession.
Ms Harman had previously proclaimed this year that women were the biggest sufferers in the recession only to be proved wrong by the Office of National Statistics.
This time, the Equalities Commissioned issued a report on the recession showing that male unemployment in the Uk had increased by 2.4% (to 8.1%) and female unemployment by 1.4% (to 6.4%).
On four key issues now, Harman has been caught peddling distortions on jobs, depression, domestic violence and the gender pay gap. On each occasion the intention is to state that the plight of women is worse than the plight of men and to allow her to pursue her pro-female anti-male agenda.
Truly shameful.
The tragedy of this is that she creates division and conflict. After all, the men are husbands to wives and fathers to daughters so it really should not be about men v women. Somehow she and many like her seem stuck in a strange perpetual teenage, before the complex web of responsibilities that is adult life.
Posted by: nigel | Thursday, 09 July 2009 at 20:27